Noyes - Job - 8

8:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

8:2  How long wilt thou speak such things? How long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

8:3  Will God pervert judgment? Or will the Almighty pervert justice?

8:4  As thy children sinned against him, He hath given them up to their transgression.

8:5  But if thou wilt seek early to God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty,—

8:6  If thou wilt be pure and upright, Surely he will yet arise for thee, And prosper thy righteous habitation;

8:7  So that thy beginning shall be small, And thy latter end very great.

8:8  For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And mark what hath been searched out by their fathers;

8:9  (For we are of yesterday and know nothing, Since our days upon the earth are but a shadow;)

8:10  Will not they instruct thee, and tell thee, And utter words from their understanding?

8:11  "Can the paper-reed grow up without mire? Can the bulrush grow without water?

8:12  While it is yet in its greenness, and is not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

8:13  Such is the fate of all who forget God; So perisheth the hope of the ungodly.

8:14  His confidence shall come to nought, And his trust shall prove a spider’s web.

8:15  He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; He shall lay fast hold on it, but it shall not endure.

8:16  He is in full green before the sun, And his branches shoot forth over his garden;

8:17  His roots are entwined about the heap, And he seeth the place of stones;

8:18  When he shall be destroyed from his place, It shall deny him, saying, ‘I never saw thee.’

8:19  Lo! such is the joy of his course! And others shall spring up from his place"

8:20  Behold, God will not cast away an upright man; Nor will he help the evil-doers.

8:21  While he filleth thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with gladness,

8:22  They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, And the dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to nought.